Category: Fiction

  • Book Digest: Baalu Girma, Canisia Lubrin, Daniel Black, Ibi Zoboi

    Book Digest: Baalu Girma, Canisia Lubrin, Daniel Black, Ibi Zoboi

    Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Baalu Girma, Canisia Lubrin, Daniel Black, and Ibi Zoboi. Oromay by Baalu Girma Publisher: Soho PressDate: February 4, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: English (Translated from Amharic)Where to find it: Penguin Random House, Baalu Girma Baalu Girma was one of Ethiopia’s greatest writers and Oromay was his most famous…

  • Book Digest: Hayat Kasdi, Patrice Lawrence, Kamilah Cole, Nicole Sealey

    Book Digest: Hayat Kasdi, Patrice Lawrence, Kamilah Cole, Nicole Sealey

    Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Hayat Kasdi, Patrice Lawrence, Kamilah Cole, Nicole Sealey, and John Murillo. Chouf…A Marseille by Hayat Kasdi Publisher: Les éditions El AmirDate: December 7, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: FrenchWhere to find it: Amazon, FNAC Hayat Kasdi Hayat Kasdi is a writer from Algeria who writes in French. Chouf…A Marseille…

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2025 longlist announced

    PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2025 longlist announced

    ‘Pemi Aguda, Percival Everett, and John Vercher are on the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2025 longlist announced on Monday, February 3, 2025. The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, first handed out in 1981, is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year’s best works of fiction by living US American citizens. Some…

  • British Science Fiction Awards 2024 longlists announced

    British Science Fiction Awards 2024 longlists announced

    The British Science Fiction Awards 2024 longlists were announced on Saturday, February 1, 2025. Here are the writers of African descent in the running. The British Science Fiction Awards, a production of the British Science Fiction Association, have been presented annually since 1970. The awards are voted on by members of the British Science Fiction…

  • Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2025 finalists announced

    Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2025 finalists announced

    The Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2025 finalists were announced in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday, January 16, 2025. Ahmadou Kourouma was a legendary Ivorian novelist of many titles including Les Soleils des indépendances (1968), Le Diseur de verité (1972), and the most famous Allah n’est pas oblige (2000) which was translated to Allah Is Not Obliged. The…

  • Opportunities for writers and poets for February 2025.

    Opportunities for writers and poets for February 2025.

    In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work in February 2025, be it poetry, prose, or other related arts. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), opportunity hubs, journals, and prizes. Please do us a favour and mention to whoever you applied to that you got the…

  • Literary Magazines: Weganda Review, Efiko, New Contrast, The Shallow Tales Review

    Literary Magazines: Weganda Review, Efiko, New Contrast, The Shallow Tales Review

    New editions of literary magazines Weganda Review, Efiko, New Contrast, and The Shallow Tales Review are now available. Weganda Review The Weganda Review is a literary journal produced in Uganda as a project of the cultural nonprofit Weganda Foundation. The platform founded by Rodney Muhumuza in 2023 features writers, researchers, academics, artists, and others publishing…

  • Percival Everett wins Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2025

    Percival Everett wins Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2025

    Percival Everett’s novel James won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2025 on Sunday, January 26, 2025. The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the United States in the previous year in 2012. Worth $5,000…

  • US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024 finalists announced

    US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024 finalists announced

    The US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024 finalists were announced in New York, USA on Thursday, January 23, 2025. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) celebrates the best books published in English in Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism in the United States since 1974. Finalists are nominated, evaluated, and selected by a…

  • Hubert Haddad is Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 finalist

    Hubert Haddad is Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 finalist

    Hubert Haddad was declared a Prix Littéraire Montluc Résistance et Liberté 2025 finalist on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté (English: Montluc Resistance and Freedom Prize) is awarded to an author, whether French or foreign, whose work questions current methods of fighting against oppression in all its manifestations, or whose work represents…

  • Book Digest: Dzifa Benson, Nathaniel Bivan, Yael Valencia Aldana

    Book Digest: Dzifa Benson, Nathaniel Bivan, Yael Valencia Aldana

    Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Dzifa Benson, Nathaniel Bivan, and Yael Valencia Aldana. Black Mestiza by Yael Valencia Aldana Publisher: University Press of KentuckyDate: January 21, 2025Genre: PoetryLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: University Press of Kentucky Yael Valencia Aldana Yael Valencia Aldana, an Afro-Latinx/e poet and writer, is the author of…

  • Alexander Nderitu Prize For World Literature 2024 shortlist announced

    Alexander Nderitu Prize For World Literature 2024 shortlist announced

    The Alexander Nderitu Prize For World Literature 2024 shortlist was announced in Nairobi on Thursday, January 9, 2025. The Alexander Nderitu Prize For World Literature is a new prize awarded to the best unpublished short story from anywhere in the world. Aimed at launching new literary stars, it is named for Kenyan writer and critic…

  • Book Digest: Nnedi Okorafor, Afabwaje Kurian, A. K. Herman, Enajite Efemuaye

    Book Digest: Nnedi Okorafor, Afabwaje Kurian, A. K. Herman, Enajite Efemuaye

    Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Nnedi Okorafor, Afabwaje Kurian, A. K. Herman, and Enajite Efemuaye. Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor Publisher: William MorrowDate: January 14, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: English, Speculative FictionWhere to find it: Harper Collins, Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor is the author of multiple award-winning and New…

  • Speculative fiction magazine Omenana turns 10

    Speculative fiction magazine Omenana turns 10

    Omenana Magazine, a pioneer magazine publishing speculative fiction, celebrated its tenth anniversary with two magazines in December 2024. Omenana Magazine is a speculative fiction online magazine that has published stories by writers from Africa and the African diaspora since 2014. They focus on stories, art, and essays that explore the rich cultural heritage of the…

  • Aspen Words Literary Prize 2025 longlist announced

    Aspen Words Literary Prize 2025 longlist announced

    The Aspen Words Literary Prize 2025 longlist was announced in Aspen, USA on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture in the US. Eligible works include…